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Particle Dreams
For my artist I have chosen Karl Sims. Karl Sims currently leads GenArts, Inc, which specializes in creating special effects software for the film industry. I have chosen to post and discuss his brief computer generated film entitled “Particle Dreams” for this assignment. What I see in the film are a great many particles, all spinning and swirling around to create different...
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[ The following posts were for the Com 265 class ]
December 2007
5 posts
the simple things
so yea… he’s one of the most simplistic games i’ve seen in a long time and funny enough, its simply addicting. i find it funny these days the amazing complexity of some games, and then others can come along and just be so basic and minimalistic and end up being just as much fun. take a look http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/fdeca3053d646d2e/Boomshine.swf
Online Guitar Hero
For those of you that are addicted to guitar hero, i found this cool flash version you can play online. While the songs are all by no namers, some of them are pretty good. you get the mario and zelda themes to play which i thought was pretty original. its simple to play, just use the keyboard but its still pretty neat. check it out:...
3 ways of getting into video games.
im going to blog about these videos a little more because i found them very usefull and i think there very relevent to our class. paul says theres 3 main ways to get into games. As a programmer, as an artist, or as a producer. The question i have is where do you pick up the skills nessassary to do games? It seems like you still have to do it on your own. personally the art end interests me,...
How to get into the Video Game industry
I found these videos online where Paul Barnett, lead creative desighner for the upcomeing game Warhammer Online, talks about essentially how to get a job in video games. i found these videos to be great and we should pull them up in class. He’s a funny guy, and he’s working on a game that has almost 500,000 players sighned up just to get into the closed beta. He’s deffinatly...
November 2007
2 posts
Game Concept
Title: Border Patrol Short description: Border Patrol is a platform action game where you take the role of an INS agent who duty is to enforce the law. Immigrants are trying to enter your country illegally and you must do everything in your power to stop it. You must ensure that the law is upheld and not broken, this is your goal. In this game you play as a INS agent who uses nets to catch...
Machinima
The machinima project we just did was probably the most enjoyable project we’ve done all semester. i have always wanted to use a game engine to create a movie. Lately I’ve seen some really great short videos using the world of warcraft engine so our group choose to use that. While we enjoyed the project and are very happy with our final copy we ran into several problems when trying to...
September 2007
1 post
Bloxorz
I played threw the first 10 stages of bloxors, got stuck on the 11th. I found it pretty addicting at first, but got pretty frustrated at the end and gave up. some of the stages we’re easy, others were more difficult. the game play kept me going for awhile tho. it was easy to just pick and get going, no real learning curve involved. some of the puzzles really made me think tho. It...